Directing collective Dvein, whose roost is NYC production company Blacklist, turned out this experimental video interpretation of The Dismemberment Plan’s hit song “Daddy Was a Real Good Dancer. “Symbiosis” is the latest installment in the New Music Weekly campaign on digital music service Rdio, the three-year-old challenger brand to Spotify, Pandora, MOG and Grooveshark. The innovative New Music Weekly campaign, launched last July, brings together the best in independent art and music with a series of original video pieces from visual artists around the world inspired by new music.
This is the second entry in the series by the award winning, Barcelona-based Dvein (hot off an Aussie FX & Animation Fest Gold Music Video Award for The Vein “Magma”), which earlier released “Sculpture” for HAIM’s “My Song 5. Blacklist has provided a number of directors and animators for the Rdio campaign including Holbrooks, Tendril, Upper First and Wizz, creating pieces based on music by Icona Pop, Bloc Party, Typhoon, Pond, Michael Franti and Gogol Bordello. New Music Weekly releases original videos each week on Vice, NPR Vimeo, Pitchfork and on Rdio’s Tumblr page, where the videos are offered as gifs. The campaign thus far has nearly 3.5 million public facing views.
“We don’t see these as music videos but instead something more personal for our visual artists, creating art inspired by music, rather than literal interpretations,” said Nada Antoun, global PR director of Rdio, which is owned by Skype. “This campaign has shown that new art inspired by new music promotes discovery.”
Kamala Harris Receives Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards
Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
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